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Monument details

HER Number:TR 23 NW 58
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Neolithic impliments and pottery

Summary

A leaf shaped arrowhead and sandstone axe were found at Caesar's Camp, as was some Neolithic pottery. All finds are in the Folkestone Museum. The pottery was found during Pitt-Rivers' excavations of 1878.

Grid Reference:TR 213 379
Map Sheet:TR23NW
Parish:FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • HANDAXE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SHERD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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In store in Folkestone Museum is a Ne. leaf-shaped arrowhead found at Caesar's Camp at an unknown date and donated by the late N.Toke. On display from the same site is a small sandstone Ne. axe found September 1907, also some Ne. `B' sherds found in 1878 during excavations of Caesar's Camp (TR 23 NW 2) by Pitt-Rivers (a). (1-4)


RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKe6910.

<1> Arch 47 1883 429-65 (Pitt-Rivers) (OS Card Reference). SKE34425.

<2> F1 ASP 07.05.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41969.

<3> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 58 - May, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5634.

<4> RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main.
<1>XYOS Card Reference: Arch 47 1883 429-65 (Pitt-Rivers). [Mapped feature: #45179 find, ]
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 07.05.64.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 23 NW 58 - May, 1964.
<4>Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main.